02-29-2012, 12:08 PM
it's like everything else in life we crit ( if we're 'onest) this coffee dosn't taste too goo, it needs milk...it needs more sugar
the beers warm give me a lager please. excuse me sir but doing 100 in a 60 mph zone is a bit silly isn't it.
nice tits, shame about the face.
critique/feedback need not be an academic exercise in blow wind up someone's arse. most of us don't have those kind of skills. that some do is a good thing though. maybe it's it's me but i's struggle to believe that anyone could find my crits make anyone feel out of their depths. i could be wrong but i think we have a fairly eclectic group of critics that cross the whole gambit of feedback.
to the question at hand. i personally think it's easy to make a conscious effort to honest and kind. saying this is great if you don't believe it to be the case makes one a bit of twat (in my book) it may be that they actually think something great because to them and their knowledge of poetry it is. maybe all the poetry they've read is internet poetry.
i think there's also that element of posting a poem thinking it's great and not needing t see someone say "this doesn't work for me because.." i'd much sooner a few cantankerous writers who help each other with honest sensible feedback than the "it's lovely' brigade. feedback and how to give it can to a certain extent be learned from reading feedback on a poem and of the course the poem itself. to be out of one's depth is merely a state of mind. i think leanne has the crux of it sorted out; imagine you're discussing their poem over a coffee table and not the net.
the beers warm give me a lager please. excuse me sir but doing 100 in a 60 mph zone is a bit silly isn't it.
nice tits, shame about the face.
critique/feedback need not be an academic exercise in blow wind up someone's arse. most of us don't have those kind of skills. that some do is a good thing though. maybe it's it's me but i's struggle to believe that anyone could find my crits make anyone feel out of their depths. i could be wrong but i think we have a fairly eclectic group of critics that cross the whole gambit of feedback.
to the question at hand. i personally think it's easy to make a conscious effort to honest and kind. saying this is great if you don't believe it to be the case makes one a bit of twat (in my book) it may be that they actually think something great because to them and their knowledge of poetry it is. maybe all the poetry they've read is internet poetry.
i think there's also that element of posting a poem thinking it's great and not needing t see someone say "this doesn't work for me because.." i'd much sooner a few cantankerous writers who help each other with honest sensible feedback than the "it's lovely' brigade. feedback and how to give it can to a certain extent be learned from reading feedback on a poem and of the course the poem itself. to be out of one's depth is merely a state of mind. i think leanne has the crux of it sorted out; imagine you're discussing their poem over a coffee table and not the net.